Karate's History & Traditions by Bruce Haines

By Bruce Haines

A vintage textual content precious through martial artists for over 20 years, Karate's heritage & Traditions was once lengthy well-known because the so much authoritative resource on martial arts heritage and process. Now Bruce Haines, historian and martial artist, has up to date this wealthy resource to mirror alterations that experience taken position within the final decades.

This certain yet well–rounded martial arts consultant covers the heritage of the Asian struggling with arts from antiquity to trendy occasions, answering a number of the questions presently being debated by means of martial artists worldwide. each one bankruptcy describes the scuffling with arts of masters in lots of components, including:

  • Okinawa
  • Japan
  • China
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Thailand
  • Cambodia
  • Vietnam
  • Korea
  • The Philippines

Undertaking years of onerous study utilizing the main trustworthy ancient facts, Haines has crammed in lots of of the gaps within the histories of the combating arts and has confirmed fake many renowned myths.

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